rescued women. "cnn newsroom" with carol costello begins right now. happening now in the "newsroom," escape from captivity. >> this is the tip of the iceberg. this investigation will take a long time. >> three women, amanda berry, gina dejesus, and michele knight, enduring a decade of terror. their families stunned and shocked. >> amanda. >> yeah, grandma. >> yeah, how are you? i thought you were gone. >> reporter: exclusive new details on what happened on cleveland's seymour street. >> you saw the tarps from where? >> from my bedroom window. >> neighbors telling cnn what he saw in the suspect's backyard. and a cnn exclusive. >> you moved in about a year ago, you had seen ariel castro around. >> the hero neighbor, charles

ram ramsey one-on-one. a minute by minute account. i told her, go across the street and use their phone. now we both calling 911. >> this morning, cleveland attempts to heal. yellow ribbons and a heavy heart. "newsroom" starts now. >> and good morning. thank you so much for being with me. i'm carol costello, we begin in cleveland, where investigators could get the first glimpse into the deep, dark secrets what locals call a house of horrors. they will question the suspects today for the first time. cleveland's police chief expected charges to be filed today against homeowner ariel castro and his two brothers and could also appear in court today. we're also hearing more about conditions of the rescued women. it turns out they were wrong when they said all were released

from the hospital. michele knight remains in the hospital this morning. she had wen mibeen missing the longest. she is described as weak and thin, not so eager to talk to her family. we'll hear from her mother in a minute. first, something that caused eyes to well up. for the first time in ten years, amanda berry able to talk to her grandmother in tennessee. here is part of the call. >> hello. >> amanda. >> yeah, grandma. >> how are you? >> i'm fine. >> i'm glad to have you back. >> yeah, it's good to be back. >> i thought you were gone. >> nope, i'm here. >> we're happy down here for you. >> thank you so much. i miss everybody, miss everybody so much. >> the little girl is your baby? >> yes, she's my daughter. born on christmas. >> we have to get together soon. >> i know it. >> i have a little girl named christina, she wants to meet you. >> i love you, honey, thank god. >> i love you too.

>> i thought about you all this time. i never forgot you. >> you may have caught it. berry confirms that the 6-year-old child who escaped along with her and seen in this hospital bed is indeed, her daughter. amanda says she was born on christmas day, several years into her alleged imprisonment. michele knight's mother hopes to see her daughter soon. michele is 32 now, but 21 when she disappeared in 2002, and had a rocky relationship with her mother. police thought they might have been a runaway. knight's another spoke to nbc's savannah guthrie. >> do you feel your daughter wants to see you? >> yeah. i know she's probably an at the world because she thought she would never be found. thank god somebody did. i had my doubts, but then i looked on the bright side. i did go to god and i prayed for her, you know, some kind of thing to tell me at least if she

is alive or not. >> and we want to update you on an issue we first raised yesterday. we questioned how a dispatcher handled amanda berry's frantic call to 911. that 911 operator is under fire for "sending police as soon as we can get a car open" and hanging up before the police arrived. the handling of the call is under review. according to a statement, we have noted some concerns which will be the focus of our review, including the call taker's failure to remain on the line with ms. berry until police arrived on the scene. it also credits the dispatcher with acting swiftly and efficiently, as a result of the call taker's actions, police were dispatched and on the scene in less than two minutes. last night, a police spokeswoman talked with anderson cooper. >> the division is looking into it at this time. but the bottom line, the call

taker able to get the information needed, a car was dispatched within 18 seconds and the car arrived on scene in under two minutes. so really time wasn't a factor and what needed to be done was done. >> the investigation into the 911 call goes on. martin, will charges be filed against these men this morning, later in the average, in the days to come? >> good morning, carol. pretty much got to be today. the judge or judges consulted, say 48 hours after a time of arrest, you have to come up with charges if you intend to. you look at the clock, it goes back to 6:30, 7:00 on monday when the suspects were taken into custody. time frame, probably around that time tonight. city of cleveland will announce with a press conference when that happens, elsewhere, i should talk about questioning. that actually began last night,

just had a conversation with the fbi, they say that federal and local authorities began questioning the men last night. it continues again today. in these interrogations, have you a local officer, the fbi and the suspects brought in one at a time. that's how it's going so far. but the other focus on the home where this all happened. investigators scour the home on seymour avenue, searching for evidence in this house of horrors. throughout the day and late into the night, fbi agents meticulously search. removing the front door, searching the crawl space, carting away a red pickup and a jeep. at one point, bringing in a cadaver dog, not know what, if anything, the dog found. the fbi taking the lead in the search. >> this is just the tip of the iceberg. this investigation will take a long time. >> reporter: the three suspects, 52-year-old ariel cast rock his brothers pedro and onil, behind

bars will, face more interrogation today. authorities have 48 hours to file charges and that window closes later tonight. in the neighborhood, residents are still celebrating, jub lance tempered with shock and disbelief. >> unreal. >> i know who lived there. panned the camera to his house, turned white and my wife said are you okay? and i said that was -- i was dumbfounded. >> away from the cameras, the three women trying to piece their shattered lives back together. >> this is a miracle. a very, very large miracle. and we're all excited. >> reporter: i have been told by the fbi, carol, they are done with their investigation at the home. at least for the time being, they have finished gathering all the evidence they need to, that's complete. they are continuing to question people in the neighborhood.

one other thing, the city of cleveland issued a statement today, they are hearing reports from people in the neighborhood who said they reported suspicious activity, very specific stuff going on at that home, that address, the authorities are maintaining that is false. they claim they did not get any claims from neighbors reporting suspicious activity from that address. >> martin savidge, more questions, but i want to bring in a cleveland plain dealer reporter, peter krause. new disturbing information about the main suspect in the case, ariel castro. according to the plain dealer, castro severely beat his wife in 2005, in addition to his arrest for domestic violence in 1993. that charge later dropped. this is what he looked like in 1993. but the plain dealer has more about what happened in 2005. the paper says court documents show "castro fought with his

form every wife over the custody of their children. castro's wife twice suffered a broken mos en nose, broken ribs knocked out tooth, a blood clot on the brain and two dislocated shoulders, come on back, peter krause. a reporter for the cleveland plain dealer. did castro serve any time for this crime? > no, he did not serve any time. we found no record of any charges being brought against them in 2005 in connection with -- with those accusations of domestic violence. >> isn't that unusual? if you break a woman's ribs, wouldn't you be charged with assault? >> well, one would think so. you know, it was a -- a custody battle, domestic relations court and a lot of things are said in domestic relations court and

they have to be proven before charges are brought. i'm not suggesting these things didn't happen. clearly it looks like ariel castro was capable of violence. >> martin savidge, you talked a lot to ariel castro's family members. did they mention this alleged domestic abuse? >> no, they don't mention that specific incident that are you describing. they do talk about the fact that there were problems with the two other brothers, they knew of alcohol problems. you know, there has been talk of problems between husband and wife. ariel, however, they say they were shocked when they have now read these violent assaults. they said they weren't aware of it. it's really difficult to understand, is this the public front they are putting for their family, or was there a clear understanding, a problem between husband and wife? we can't discern that in just talking to them? >> thank you so much. it's difficult to wrap your head

around the fact that one man could have held three women captive in the same house for ten years. it turns out neighbors did see suspicious behavior, like a naked woman in the backyard. tori dunan live in cleveland with that part of the story what did this neighbor tell you? >> so, carol, we talked to this neighbor who lives three houses down. 20 years old, and ultimately, she thought he was a pretty normal guy, used to ride on his atv, and two years ago, she saw something pretty unusual coming from his house. what she said in her own words. >> me and my friends and sister were across the street at a house, like spending the night, and we seen a naked lady in the backyard. and we like didn't know nothing about it, so we said -- we said something to her, he told her to get down, and we said something to him. he told both -- he told her to get in the house and he ran behind the cars and got in the

house. >> so what was she doing? >> she was just walking around. >> and naked. >> yeah. and we thought that was weird. >> yeah, you mean, what sort of came to your mind? >> we thought it was funny at first, and we just thought that was weird so we called the cops. >> and then what happened. >> we thought we were playing and joking and they didn't believe us. when we seen that, the lady, like the backyard was opened, and then after that, like a week or two after, he put tarps up, he like totally secluded himself. >> and you saw the tarps from where? >> i could see them from my bedroom window, if we would like stand up on the log or something, we could see it. >> you could actually see it? >> i think the police might have taken them down. i adopt know. he would open the window an hour or two, and she would sit and

look out the wind kro and come back, close the window, and then we don't know what happened to her the rest of the day. and then like he -- he just had the windows boarded up, everything was closed down. one time he led us up to the front door to go get pop sicles or candy, something like that he didn't let us in the house ever. >> so, carol, obviously that neighbor says there was some suspicious activity that she and her friend had called it into police, but police at this point, carol, says that is false. they have looked through the databases and not found this in there. >> they haven't received any calls from this neighborhood since 2006 according to police. tory dunan thank you. the fbi says they are done searching the house of horrors. charges expected later today. the fbi telling us the name of amanda berry's 6-year-old daughter, her name is joslin.

still not naming who the father might be. charles ramsey, the man who kicked in the door and freed amanda berry, become -- no other way to put it, he's become a sensation. here he is one-on-one with amanda cooper. >> have you seen ariel castro around. >> i moved here, he was my neighborhood. >> what was he like? >> cool. i wasn't no freak of nature. he was like me and you. he talked about the same kinds of thing easy talked about. he talked about you, you know what i mean? regular stuff, bro. >> so yesterday what happened? >> you will love this. i am going to tell it all. around 3:00, i was on my porch, and the mailman put his mail in my mail so i'm looking at it, got ariel's mail.

checked the mail, went in the house, here is the mail. same conversation. they said they can't get it right, nope, damn postal service. he left, jumped on my bike, went to mcdonald's, came back momeho. i'm in my house, in the living room, and right by the front door, i'm looking out the front door and man, this girl screamed like a car had hit a kid. which made me, you know, stop eating, what the hell was that? so when i got up, i saw this -- my neighbor across the street, he run across the street, and i'm thinking where are you going? ain't nobody next door, i just saw ariel leave. ain't nobody there. heard that girl scream, saw him run across the street, went outside, wondering what he was doing, and amanda says i'm stuck in here, help me get out. he either doesn't know english or panicked.

he said it's a girl. here i come with my half eaten big mac and i say what's up? and she's like i've been trapped in here, he won't let me out. me and my baby. i said we don't need to talk no more. trying to get the door open, can't, and he has torture chambered it, locked it up in some kind of way, i kicked the bottom of the door, crawled out of it, grabbed the baby, which threw me off. fine, i got some girl, her kid. >> what did she look like? was what she wearing? >> jumpsuit, white tank top on, rings on, mascara, well groomed. she didn't look like she was kidnapped. that's what i'm saying. when she said i'm trapped, well, you don't look kidnapped. maybe you have a boyfriend problem, but i know who lives here, and he is 50-something. you can't be the boyfriend problem. you know, it can't be him.

maybe you're dating his son. >> you had never seen her before? in the year you been there? >> bro, bro. that woman didn't come out of the house, the only kids that came out of the house were two little girls. they played in the backyard, he had two dogs, and my -- where lived was next door. kids playing, i know it was them. they played in the backyard a couple of hours, go back in the house. same thing every day. the neighborhood knows them as his grandchildren. so no big deal. he had his grandkids over all the time. i thought. >> amanda berry then asked to call 911? >> um-hum. i took her to my house. i'm nervous as hell. so i'm fumbling with my phone, so i finally get it right, she can't wait, i don't blame her, i

say go across the street and use their phone, now we both calling 911, and she gets through, and i get through, she deals with the moron, me too. >> what do you mean a moron? i heard the 911 call for her. >> idiot, imbecile, why do you have the damn job. >> the woman was like hang up, wait for the police. >> how about stay on, talk to me until they get there? >> right. >> just ahead of the "newsroom" more of the one-on-one with charles ramsey as special coverage from ohio continues.

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our special coverage from ohio continues. charles ramsey, you know him by now. many call him a hero, but

ramsey, himself, no. more of anderson's one-on-one with the man who rescued ammonia berry. >> so you call 911. >> sure did. >> how soon did police get there? >> they got there so fast, and i said moron, because i said, hey, amanda berry is right in front of me right now. what she got on? and i told him, white tank top, blue sweatpants, nice tennis shoes, nice ponytail. what else? oh, right, she's panicking, idiot! put yourself in her shoes, i just said amanda berry. that don't ring no damn bells, you being a cop and all. >> when you first saw her and she said the name amanda berry? >> i didn't know. i forgot. bro this is cleveland. since they haven't found that girl and i guess stopped looking for that girl, we figured that girl met her demise. sobery didn't register with me until i was on the phone. wait a minute, i thought this girl was dead. >> what does it feel like to be living next to this for a year?

>> see, that's why now i'm having trouble asleep. see, up until yesterday, the only thing that kept me from losing sleep was the lack of money. you know what i'm saying? >> um-hum. >> so now that that's going on and i could have done this last year, not this hero stuff, do the right thing. >> do you feel like a hero? >> no, no, no, no, no, bro. i'm a christian, an american, and just like you. bleed the same blood, put our pants on the same way. just that you got to put that being a coward. i don't want to get in nobody's business. put that away for a minute. >> a lot of people turn the other way, keep walking down the street. >> it's about the homeless on this planet. >> has the fbi said anything about a reward or anything?

there was a reword to find her. >> i tell you what you do. give it to them. if folks are following this case, since last night, you have been following me since last night, you know i got a job anyway. just went and picked it up. paychecks. what does that address say? >> i don't have my glasses. 2203 seymour. those girls living right next door to this paycheck. so, yeah, take that reward, and -- and give it to them. that little girl came out of the house, and she was crying, and i'm looking at her, and i said your mama is trying to help you, shutup. and she said i want my daddy. and i said who is your daddy? she said ariel. >> she said that? >> yeah, how is that possible. if you got kidnapped. he was having sex with you, oh, jesus christ. that little girl is his? now we want to hurt you.

>> right. you felt that? >> bro, this would be a different interview. i told you that, if we had known that, man, i would be facing triple life. >> wow. i'm glad it turned out this way. >> oh, aren't we all? besides whatever law enforcement reward charles ramsey will get, donations pouring in online. by all accounts, a great samaritan. still ahead, reaction from michele knight's family. thought she was a runaway and police say michele knight was abducted and held captive for 11 years. ♪ [ male announcer ] start with a dodge dart. now give it a "tiger shark" engine and 41 mpg. good. now add some of this. and that. definitely him. and her. a little more of her.

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good morning. i'm carol costello, thank you for joining me. just about 30 minutes past the hour. here are the latest developments

out of ohio, where the three women were rescued after years of captivity. cleveland's police chief tells us he expects charges to be filed today against homeowner ariel castro and his two brothers, local and federal investigators began questioning them last night, one at a time. in the meantime, the fbi is now done searching the house for now. evidence technicians searched the house from the scrawl space to the attic, even the screen door that became the passage to freedom. an update on how women are doing. it turns out authorities were wrong when they said all three were released from the hospital yesterday. amanda berry and gina dejesus, said to be in good health, michele knight, the oldest victim, remain s hospitalized today. missing the longest being weak, thin, and not so eager to talk to her family. the three women are, well, they are finally being reunited with their family. where are we going here?

there we go. we're going to zoraida michele knight, missing since 2002. unlike the other women, a number of family members thought she was a runaway and he understand today she is not so eager to reunite with even her mother. zoraida soambolin in cleveland, spoke with members of her family. what did they say? >> you know, they said a lot, carol, what's really surprising, and you mentioned to me, surprising right off the bat, a lot of family members had no idea she was kidnapped. they thought she was living in another state with somebody else. they found out she was kidnapped by the reports she was rescued. that was really shocking. another thing, her brother, freddy, talked about the relationship they had with their mother. when he was just 14 years old, his mother kicked him out of house because he showed up late for a soccer game. mixed emotions about his mother

coming back, trying to reunite with michele. freddy went to the hospital, spent time with his sister, talked to her, but doesn't have very positive feelings about his mother. his mother did appear on "today" this morning. i want to play a little bit of what she said. >> that i love you, and i missed you all this time. and hopefully whatever happened between us, if something did, i hope it heals. because i really want to take her back to florida with me. i don't want to leave her up in cleveland. >> i got to tell you, carol, the family was firm on this they said they do not want their mother or freddy in particular, does not want his mother to take michele back. he said, look, she failed us once. how can we trust she won't fail us again? he had some very harsh words. because of the way that he's been treated. i want you to listen to this. >> i don't like my mom.

i hate my mom completely. >> why? >> because what she let the uncle do to us and my sister, me and my uncle beat the hell out of us. he pushed my sister down and my cousin michael down on the ground, he a blood clot in his head. my mom didn't help us. when my uncle was doing that, she couldn't do anything. she didn't try to stop it. i'd call the police. >> you know, carol, i asked freddy, was she responsible for the abuse that was happening in the home that forced you to leave the home? and he said, no, she wasn't the one who actually committed the abuse, but she also didn't stop it. and so, you know, some very bitter words. another woman present, her name is barb, and she was actually part of the search effort when michele first disappeared, and we heard the mom say repeatedly she canvassed the neighborhood, put up flyers throughout the neighborhood, trying to find her daughter, barb says, yes, they

went and canvassed the neighborhood, went to police, but no flyers ever distributed and shortly thereafter, barb kind of gave up looking for her daughter. so, you know, that's the story from the family and in particular that young man who is very bitter about the situation right now. >> so basically michele knight went from one nightmare situation to a worst nightmare. >> yes, yes. >> it also makes you wonder if her family told police she was a runaway. they probably didn't look for her as stringently as they might. >> you know what's interesting, they did tell them that not only -- you know, she was older, right, 20 years old, but she was mentally challenged and they gave that information to police. they were hoping that would help them look for aggressively for her. they kept saying she's slow. i asked them to define what that meant. she has a developmental

disability. they were eager to make sure they could help her, find her. she went out to make a phone call, never returned home. at the end of the day, they were disappointed and police believed that the lack of effort in trying to find her. >> what else can you say? zoraida thank you so much. >> it breaks your heart. >> it does. really does. more special live coverage from cleveland in a minute. but ahead in the "newsroom," mark sanford is the come back kid. heading back to congress. hear him talk about his big win and how he compared himself to a saint. [ male announcer ] my client gloria has a lot going on in her life. wife, mother, marathoner. but one day it's just gonna be james and her. so as their financial advisor, i'm helping them look at their complete financial picture -- even the money they've invested elsewhere -- to create a plan that can help weather all kinds of markets. because that's how they're getting ready, for all the things they want to do. [ female announcer ] when people talk,

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we'll have more live coverage from cleveland in a moment. but a huge political comeback for north carolina governor mark sanford. he won an open congressional seat that he once held. cnn's national political correspondent jim acosta in

charleston, south carolina and he didn't win by a little bit, but by a lot. >> that's right. you might say the voters have forgiven mark sanford. a long and winning trail for the former south carolina governor, but he does appear to be out of woods. no longer that former governor of the appalachian trail. is he congressman elect mark sanford. >> some guy came up to me the other day and says you look a lot like lazarus. >> reporter: once left for dead in the political wilderness, mark sanford blazed a comeback trail that will take him all wait to washington. >> i want to acknowledge a good of second chances but third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, challenges, because that's the reality of shared humanity. >> reporter: he captured a vacant south carolina congressional seat by decided

margin. he an extramarital affair from a mistress from argentina that he once claimed was a hike on the appalachian trail may be behind him. is this redemption? >> i think we're always on the route to redemption. we'll see where things go from here. it's less about that than about the second chance to make an impact in washington, d.c., where i think the impact is desperately needed. >> reporter: if sanford's life at times seemed like a trashy romance novel, this latest chapter is a page turner. for some voters, he has been forgiven. >> he who is without sin cast the first stone. >> i don't like him, i don't respect him. >> reporter: not enough to help elizabeth colbert busch in the conservative district. >> i had continue to fight for all of you in south carolina. >> thank you as well for being here, love.

appreciate it thank you. >> reporter: as for sanford, his personal life on the mend. his mistress is fiancee, a chapter she's keeping private for now. >> it's mark's night. thank you so much for everything, but it's his night. so i hope youan. >> people want to know, can we trust this guy? is heing if to let us down? >> you asked that question before, and you come back to the same question and gave you the same answer, which is that -- that trust is ultimately clear. >> reporter: and the voters are going to find out if trust is earned. mark sanford can be sworn in as early as this week, democrats mocking his comeback, one top party operative said he should be placed on the foreign affairs committee, but i talked to one voter yesterday who said, yes, they went there, but i talked to one voter who said if he screws up again, god help him.

carol. >> i'm sure he has that in his head already. jim acosta from south carolina this morning. still ahead on the "newsroom," more special live coverage from ohio. cnn just received new court documents, detail horrible alleged abuse from ariel castro to his former wife. we'll detail that and also talk more about the victims when we come back. ♪ [ male announcer ] just when you thought you had experienced performance a new ride comes along and changes everything. the 2013 lexus gs. this is the pursuit of perfection. a regular guy with an irregular heartbeat. the usual, bob? not today. [ male announcer ] bob has afib: atrial fibrillation not caused by a heart valve problem, a condition that puts him at greater risk for a stroke. [ gps ] turn left.

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all right. cnn managed to get a hold of court documents, detailing horrible, violent domestic abuse at the hand of ariel castrol our senior producer, scott brownstein on the phone. i read through some of this earlier, awful. >> pretty disturbing. the allegations of abuse detailed detailed in the documents, quite serious. these are from the domestic relations county court. from 2005, and the wife of ariel castro clearly outlines in the documents, she was allegedly given by mr. castro, two broken noses, several broken ribs, a tooth knocked out, a blood clot to her brain.

she had both shoulders dislocated, one side and then the other, and on repeated occasions, she was threatened with death by mr. castrol initially she sought a protective order, granted in 2005, but later that year because of repeated delays, and the absence of a hearing, that was dismissed without prejudice, does not mean guilt or lack of guilt. simply means the protective order was dismissed. >> of course you know, a lot more investigating to do on our part on the latest development, but i'm just wondering why i wasn't charged with assault. >> i had the same question. we're trying to find legal experts to find out exactly the answer to that question. we don't know. but clearly allegations were made in court, and clearly at least for a time, they were upheld enough to establish a protective order. >> and i understand from reading reports and the cleveland plain dealer that ariel castro's

former wife is now deceased, but alleges in the documents that he threatened to also kill their children and abduct them, is that right? >> that's correct. on repeat ted occasions it states. >> i'm just reading -- it's just awful. interestingly, this happen ed - allegedly happened in 2005, in 2004, ariel castro drove a school bus, right? >> that's correct. >> which is kind of frightening to think about, and somebody interviewed his son, and family members didn't mention abuse, it's just curious. >> yeah, it is. so much more needs to come out. court documents seem to portray very serious abuse and violence.

and it was at least upheld for a time, a court order for protection. >> i'm sure you will be on the case all day long, scott brownstein, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> more on special coverage from ohio in just a minute. hmm, it says here that cheerios helps lower cholesterol as part of a heart healthy diet. that's true. ...but you still have to go to the gym. ♪ the one and only, cheerios

this just in. a massive shakeup involving now stripped of their authority to control and launch nuclear missiles. pentagon correspondent barbara starr has more on there are story. sounds pretty disturbing, actually. >> disturbing to say the least, carol, and unprecedented even according to the air force itself. here's what's happened, a unit in north dakota, they are in charge of being ready around the clock to launch nuclear missiles. if it comes to that, 17 officers told to stand down go back to class and get retrained because they are full of problems in that unit. there's been a very emotional e-mail from their commanding officer who says and i want to

quote from some of this e-mail we're discovering such wrought in the crew force. these are nuclear weapons officers. such rot in the crew force, there have been violations of safety rules and mishandling of nuclear launch codes. 17 of them told they must go back for training for another 60 to 90 days. he talks about the complainers in the unit. he says that has to stop. he says, quote, that he'll crush any rule violators. he says the unit is in crisis. he goes on and then he gets into some of the details. what he wants to see in terms of more discipline in the unit. he says turn off the tvs, clean the patches, uniforms and get your haircut and bring to my attention any officer who bad mouths a senior officer. this may sound minor to those in the civilian world, but in the

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witnesses will reveal new information about mistakes before, during and after september's deadly benghazi attack and bolster gop claims of an obama administration cover-up. >> whistleblowers are courageous to come forward and essential in a case like this. >> a star witness is gregory hicks, the second ranking u.s. diplomat in libya at the time of the attack. they knew what the attack was not what they suggested, spontaneous. that goes to the heart of a central republican question about those infamous administration talking points about the attack. who stripped out references to al qaeda and why? a fear of stepping on the president's campaign message that he crippled al qaeda. >> we want to find out who made this decision, who made the decision to change talking points in a way that caused the american people to be lied to. >> reporter: then there is the military response.

hicks will say military personnel were ready to board a libyan plane to benghazi to help americans under fire there but were ordered by superiors not to go. at the time the decision was made, the decision was wrong. >> who made that decision? >> we want to find out who made this decision. >> reporter: democrats warn it will be a partisan show. the top democrat complains republicans won't let them talk to one of the witnesses, a counterterrorism official. elijah cummings calls that unprecedented. >> everything i've seen so far with regard to this investigation shows me it is a one-sided investigation. it leaves me sad, really. i know we're better than that. >> dana bash joins us now. i'm going to be cynical because i always am. how much of this is about hillary clinton and trying to tarnish her name just in case

she decides to run for president? >> reporter: you know, i asked daryl issa that very question and his response was not at all. they're making no specific allegations about her. but he and other republicans another house republican leading this charge also have said recently that they believe when she came to congress, she didn't tell the truth about her dealings and her responsibility and what she really was involved in and what shechsn't. that's something that we're probably going to hear. either implicitly, maybe not explicitly. remember going into this hearing is that all of the witnesses, they may be whistleblowers and by definition they have a beef with way the state department and the broader administration handled this. they may be right, but they are also giving their opinion and when democrats are upset, there aren't other people to give the other side of this story because they say there really is another side of the story. >> dana bash reporting live for us this morning, thank you. the next hour of "cnn newsroom" after a break.

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happening now in the newsroom, escape from captivity. >> this is the tip of the iceberg. this investigation will take a very long time. >> three women, amanda berry, gina dejesus and michelle knight endure a decade of terror. this morning, their family stunned and shocked. >> amanda. >> yeah, grandma. >> i thought you were gone. >> reporter: breaking overnight, exclusive new details on what

happened on cleveland's seymour street. >> you saw the tarps from where? >> i could see them from my bedroom window. >> neighbors telling cnn what they saw in the suspects' backyard. also a cnn exclusive. >> so you moved in about a year ago. >> yeah. >> you'd seen him around. >> the hero neighbor charles ramsey one on one. >> she's like, i'm trapped in here, me and my baby. >> a minute by minute account. >> what i do is tell her go across the street and use their phone. now we both calling 911. >> this morning, cleveland attempts to heal. yellow ribbons and a heavy heart. "newsroom" starts now. good morning, thank you so much for being with me. i'm carol costello, and we begin in cleveland where the police expect charges to be filed today in the decade long disappearance of three women. we'll get the latest on the

investigation in a minute. but first, an update on the conditions of the women rescued. turns out authorities were wrong when they said all three were released from the hospital. while amanda berry and gina dejesus are said to be in good night, michelle knight, the oldest victim apparently remains in the hospital. she had been missing the longest. she's described as weak and thin and not exactly eager to talk to her family. in the meantime, amanda berry reached out to her grandmother for their first talk in ten long years. it's an exchange of love and relief that might bring tears to your eyes. here's some of that call from wjhl. >> amanda? >> hello? >> amanda. >> yeah, grandma. >> yeah, are you -- >> i'm fine. how are you? >> i'm fine. i'm glad to have you back. >> it's good to be back. >> i thought you were gone. >> nope, i'm here.

>> thank the lord. >> yeah. >> is the little girl is your baby? >> yes, she's my daughter. >> oh, i saw the picture, it's beautiful. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> how old is she? >> she's 6. born on christmas. >> born on christmas. oh, that's sweet. honey, i know you can't talk too much and i know you're happy and we're happy down here for you. >> thank you so much. i love you guys so much. >> we've got to get together. we've got to get together soon. >> i know, i can't wait to see you. >> i know, i can't wait to see you either. but i love you, honey. thank god. >> i love you too. >> i've thought about you all this time. i never forgot you. >> i never forgot you either, grandma. >> i know. >> oh, god bless your heart.

>> as you might have heard, berry confirms in that phone call that the 6-year-old child who escaped with her and is seen in the hospital bed is indeed her daughter. the fbi now says her daughter's name is jocelyn. she was born on christmas day several years into amanda's alleged imprisonment. michelle knight's mother says she hopes to see her daughter soon. michelle knight is 32 years old now, but she was 21 when she disappeared into 2002. she had a rocky relationship with her mother. police thought michelle knight might have been a run away. knight's mother spoke to nbc's savannah guthrie. >> do you feel that your daughter wants to see you? >> yeah. i know she's probably angry at the world because she thought she would never be found, but thank god that somebody did. i had my doubts, but then i looked on the bright side, i did go to god and i prayed for some

kind of thing to tell me, at least, that she's alive or not. >> now, let's turn to the investigation. the fbi now done searching the house for now. evidence technicians search it from the crawl space to the attic. they even removed the screen door that became the women's passage to freedom. let's head live to cleveland now, martin savidge outside the courthouse where the suspects may appear soon? >> reporter: yeah, good question, carol. here's what we know. charges are anticipated to be filed before the day is out. if they're filed before 6:00 or shortly thereafter, you can anticipate an arraignment tomorrow morning and that would take place inside of the building behind us. and it would be all three of the suspects there at the very same time. meanwhile, questioning of the suspects, that actually began last night according to the fbi, done jointly by fbi and local authorities and continuing again today. but the other real source of information is the house on seymour itself.

>> investigators scour the home on seymour avenue searching for evidence in this house of horrors. throughout the day and late into the night, fbi agents meticulously search removing the front door, searching the crawl space, carting away a red pickup and a jeep. at one point, bringing in a cadaver dog. it's not known what if anything the dog found. the fbi taking the lead in the search. >> this is just the tip of the iceberg, this investigation will take a very long time. >> the three suspects, 52-year-old ariel castro, his brothers pedro and o'neil behind bars. authorities have 48 hours to file charges and that window closes later tonight. in the neighborhood, residents are still celebrating the jubilance tempered with shock and disbelief. >> unreal. >> i know who lived there and they panned the camera to his house. it's like i turned white. my wife told me, what's wrong,

are you okay? i was like -- i was dumbfounded. >> away from the cameras, amanda berry, gina dejesus, and michelle knight, the three women who endured a decade of captivity trying to piece their shattered lives back together. >> this is a miracle. a very, very large miracle. and we're all excited. >> a bit more about that hearing if it goes forward tomorrow morning on schedule. that would be before lauren moore, she would read the charges against the three suspects. she would then ask how will they plea? they could decide to waive entering a plea at that time. then there's the issue of bond. if there's bond, it's going to be exceedingly high i'm being told or no bond at all. cameras will be allowed in the proceedings when they happen. >> when those proceedings happen, there'll be what, an arraignment? that's initial appearance. why haven't these men appeared -- why is it taking so long?

>> well, i think you know everyone realizes, of course, this is a huge case that has generated a lot of interest. you're dealing with it on the federal and the local level and it is potential here to get a lot bigger. so they're taking it carefully. they're going to push it right up against the time limit they have. i've been told, actually, it doesn't necessarily have to be 48 hours in which they're charged, could go up to 72, it's just common practice to try to do it within 48. so there's not a guarantee we may necessarily hear today or it could come after hours. >> understood. martin savidge reporting live from cleveland this morning. we also want to update you on an issue we first raised yesterday. we questioned how a dispatcher handled amanda berry's frantic 911 phone call. the 911 operator now under fire for sending police, quote, as soon as we get a car open and then hanging up before that police car arrived. the cleveland police department is now looking into this and says the handling of that call is under review.

according to a statement, quote, we had noted some concerns which will be the focus of our review, including the call taker's failure to remain on the line with ms. berry until police arrived on the scene. it also credits the dispatcher, though, with acting swiftly and efficiently saying, quote, as a result of the call taker's actions, police were dispatched and on the scene in less than two minutes. last night, a police spokeswoman talked with anderson cooper. >> that is something that the division is looking into at this time. but really, the bottom line in that call, the call taker was able to get the information that was needed, a call was dispatched within 18 seconds and then zone car arrived on scene in under two minutes. so really time wasn't a factor and what needed to be done was done. >> and there is more new disturbing information this morning about ariel castro, the main suspect in this case. just into cnn, we obtained court documents which show castro severely beat his former wife in

2005. this apparently in addition to castro's arrest for domestic violence in 1993. that charge was later dropped and this is what he looked like in 1993. but we have found out more about what happened in 2005. court documents show, quote, castro fought with his former wife over the custody of their children, castro's wife twice suffered a broken nose as well as broken ribs and knocked out tooth, a blood clot on the brain and two dislocated shoulders. those documents also show that castro threatened to kill his wife and her daughter, three or four times that year. 2005. yet after numerous hearings, the case was dismissed as was the protection order his ex-wife had asked for. so many more questions about this. but let's talk about -- let's talk about more about these suspects, ariel castro and his brothers. jim clementi is a former fbi

profiler. he joins us now. i would suppose these new court documents don't surprise you much. >> no, not much. before i knew this information, we'd already profiled him as basically a narcissistic sadistic control freak. and these documents really support that. it takes that kind of a person to actually take away somebody's freedom, to be as brutal and as, you know, just complete monster to these three victims that he had and then the fourth victim that was born in captivity. so i think this is completely expected in this case. and i would expect that you would find that same kind of activity went on with these victims. >> we know that a domestic violence charge was dismissed in 1993. we don't know what happened with this 2005 case, but we don't think charges were filed, at least as far as we know. if he had paid a penalty for these things, might that have changed him? or was that impossible? >> well, well, i don't know it would have changed him, but certainly would've alerted

people in the community and in the police department that this guy was a violent person. i think the fact is that most domestic violence cases end up like this. unfortunately, they're very difficult to pursue. the women sometimes when they're battered don't want to create more of a sense of adversity with the man who is being violent with them. and unfortunately, the system is so tough to deal with that many times they just decide to drop the case. >> oh, but two broken noses, broken ribs and knocked out tooth, blood clot on the brain, two dislocated shoulders. that's extreme domestic abuse. >> it is. i think when you have medical evidence like that, i think the prosecutors should bring the cases despite whether or not the victim wants to pursue those charges. when you have documented medical evidence like that, i think they could pursue the case and actually get a conviction. i wish they had done that in this case. >> well, we're investigating this. we're going to try to find out

why. we don't know all the facts surrounding the story. we'll go on with that investigation. i also wanted to ask you about castro's two brothers. there was an article in the cleveland plain dealer this morning. both of them were unemployed. i just found it strange that ariel castro would pull his brothers into this sick world according to police i should say. >> well, yeah. and, yes, according to police. but that's also an assumption that he pulled them in. this may have been something they all agreed to in advance. this may have been something that they had talked about before. you don't know if he pulled them in or if they were ready, willing and able to be involved in this. as far as alcohol goes, it doesn't -- alcohol doesn't create a monster. what it does is lower the inhibitions of people and it allows them to do things they wanted to do before but sort of

had enough sense and enough morals to stay away from it. i think it just creates an opportunity for them to do what they wanted to do in the first place. >> jim clemente. thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> thank you, carol. >> back to the victims now. gina dejesus, amanda berry and michelle knight say there'll be many tough nights ahead. to a family life that is unfamiliar. the executive director of the family advocacy for the national center for missing and exploited children. thanks for being here, marcia. >> you're welcome, good morning. >> good morning. family support i would expect will have a lot to do with these women's recovery. i just want to show you a shot of amanda berry's home. you see it there with the flowers and the balloons and the welcome home sign. you know, i know you can't speak specifically about any one case. but this kind of thing, it must

make amanda feel absolutely joyous. >> indeed it would. this is a very exciting time for those of us that work in the area of missing and exploited children. certainly, the community, you know, the world is very excited about these women being recovered. and it does certainly say to these victims that there are people out there that care about them, that there always have been people out there that care about them. but, you know, but with all missing children cases and when there are recoveries, there are certainly things that need to be done to ensure that the family can move forward and a very positive and constructive way upon recovery. >> many counselors say it's important these victims not be exploited, but already details of their ordeal have been leaked to reporters and family members, some family members have allowed media to overhear phone calls

like the one from amanda berry to her grandmother. how might this affect this type of victim? >> well, you've got to understand that for family members, this is such a wonderful time for them. and when we get into the issue of exploitation, if you will, it is not anything that is done, you know, on purpose, if you will. you know, there is no way for a family member to think this would be anything that could be exploiting them and actually, it's what we like to call the honeymoon period where they are so excited. and they want people to be with them in their joy and to feel what it is what they are feeling, as well. so i don't want to say that we would like to call it exploitation per se, it is just

that period of time where there is so much happiness and so much joy and they want to share that with the world. >> i look at the jaycee dugard case, right, her family controlled access to her daughter. she was held by a man for 18 years and by all accounts doing quite well. what advice from here on out would you have for the families of these kinds of victims? >> well, what it would be like to say -- and we really do want to help the public understand with any type of missing child case, regardless if that child had been missing a day, week or multiple years, it's really important that they have the opportunity to have some private time, that they have the opportunity to work and be connected to therapists and treatment professionals that know this issue and know about

the complexities and the dynamics and what the families are going to need as they move forward. there is no particular recipe, if you will, for what is going to work for one family versus what's going to work for another family. each family is unique and what their needs are going to be. and the treatment professional needs to understand that when they do work with these families, this is going to be likely a long-term type of need for the families and they need to be committed to the fact that they may need to spend time with these families for many, many years. >> marcia, executive director of family advocacy for the center of missing and exploited children. thank you for be was ith us thi morning. >> thank you for having me. coming up next, what the

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and carol, you were saying the family is shocked. we're all shocked, right, but imagine being related to the three men that are now behind bars. so we were talking a little bit earlier about your relationship, you have a closer relationship or had a closer relationship with ariel over the other two. can you tell me about the relationship? >> i was obviously closer with ariel as we were younger in our teenage years. you know, they did live close here to this neighborhood and i did grow up in this neighborhood with my parents having a business here. and, you know, we -- i've seen him play, seen some of his gigs, he was an amazing musician, you know, rode on his motorcycle a couple of times with him when we were teenagers. and then you grow up and you move on and you separate and you move away from each other. and then there's a distance and not because of anything in particular happened, not from

any family feuds, just a normal distance that happens when people grow up. >> we're just starting to hear some of the details about what happened inside of that home from the police chief. and they're talking about chains, maybe these girls being bound and gagged. when you hear things like that, knowing this is your cousin, this is your family, how do you feel? >> you know, i'm horrified. the entire family is horrified. we can't believe that any member of this family no matter how close, how distant, how long it's been since we've seen him or talked to him that anyone in our family or anywhere in society is capable of something as horrible as the things that they're describing here. and, you know, i feel for our family and what we are listening to and disbelief. but i -- my pain is for those girls. my heart is with those girls. i can't even believe that they endured all of that for as long

as they did. and i'm amazed by their courage and their strength. and certainly glad that they came out of all of this alive. >> we were talking earlier about, you know, some people questioning the family, the morals and the values of the family and you actually got together, the cousins got together last night to talk about that. can you share some of that with us? >> we did. several of the cousins, we had a meeting last night at my house. obviously, talking about everything that has transpired. talking about our disbelief with the whole thing. you know, talking about how important it is that people know that these three men do not define our family. and obviously we share a bloodline with them, there's no denying that. we share a last name with them. we do not share a mindset with

what they've done. there is no way that we can possibly condone, forgive, or no possible way any of us would've hidden or kept quiet about any possible details having to do with any of this. if anyone in this entire family had known what was going on, no one would've remained quiet, not even his own children or mother i'm sure. >> how are his children? >> you know, i haven't spoken to his children personally, i know that his oldest daughter was having a very difficult, emotional episode the night this all broke and understandably so. i couldn't imagine what it must be like to find out. he's my cousin, but imagine the young woman that has to face the fact that this is her father. i mean, he has four kids and all of these kids now are trying to come to grips with everything that's being said and everything that's being uncovered. >> well, you know, when we talked earlier, you didn't paint

the picture of a monster early on. the two of you are very close. you had a very tight bond. >> we had. and he wasn't a monster. and not a monster that we knew of, obviously now we're seeing a monster. and it's horrifying, but, you know, that's not what he was. that's not what even this community saw him as. >> i want to read to you some information that we got recently from the police department, and it was his ex-wife filed charges against him. and all acts of domestic violence against her. two broken noses, two broken ribs, knocked out tooth, blood clot on the brain, two dislocated shoulders, she also alleges that he threatened to kill her and her daughter three to four times just that year alone. that was in 2005. in 2005. did you know about these allegatio allegations? did anyone in the family know? >> no, absolutely not.

and again, these are things now that are coming to the surface, obviously, because of the investigations and things they're looking at into any possible criminal past, any possible criminal records. you know, but what is so unfortunate when it comes to domestic violence is that so many women allow themselves to rep main quiet and to cover up these incidents. now, if she obviously had some point had made a report but it has been said that there was never a conviction, so, you know, again what's so unfortunate is what happens with so many women of domestic violence, they forgive their attacker and they drop charges and then, you know, they go on to suffer these same acts of violence behind closed doors. but that's the major point there. those are things that happen behind closed doors. our family didn't know. >> reporter: i know it's really important to you that we remember the girls in all of this and the victims. >> absolutely.

absolutely. and i said that earlier. you know, our biggest concern, our heartfelt sincere hope and prayers go to these girls and that they can somehow find a way to recover and move on and find a normal life again. and rekindle with their families. that's the most important thing. they need time to heal and time to spend with their families and reconnect. >> i suspect your family needs that, as well. >> we all do. this is horrible for all of us. there's more than one family involved here that is going through heart ache. >> maria, thank you so much for joining us again. we really appreciate it. carol, back to you. >> all right, zoraida, thanks so much. and maria, too, we appreciate you sharing your story. newsroom will be right back. [ female announcer ] you walk into your laundry room and it just hits you! that nasty odor coming from your washer. say farewell to the smell with tide washing machine cleaner. it goes straight to the source of the stink

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in boston, protesters have been demonstrating outside that funeral home where tamerlan tsarnaev's body is being kept. officials still looking for a cemetery willing to bury him. tsarnaev's uncle is asking the government for help. boston's mayor says laying tsarnaev to rest in the city would not be dignified. in just about an hour, a witness will testify in the terrorist attack in benghazi that killed four americans including ambassador chris stevens. house republicans say this man, gregory hicks, a state department official is a whistleblower and he'll bolster their claims of a white house cover-up. you can see special coverage of that hearing right here on cnn. and mark sanford is celebrating today after winning a house seat he once held in the '90s. despite his highly publicized affair, sanford beat his democratic rival by a 54% vote. he ran against elizabeth colbert

busch who as you know is the sister of comedian stephen colbert. jurors in the jodi arias murder trial are set to resume deliberations today. arias is accused of killing her boyfriend travis alexander nearly five years ago. she claims self-defense. the jury must decide between first and second-degree murder, manslaughter, or not guilty. and several days of heavy rain have caused flooding in parts of north carolina. emergency crews have asked some people to voluntarily evacuate. power has been shut down in effective areas. "newsroom" will be right back. mine was earned in djibouti, africa. 2004.

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picture of amanda berry's home, her family's home is decked out with flowers and balloons welcoming her home from ten years of hell. as you can see, there's also a police officer standing out front to keep people away and to, we assume, she's reuniting in a good way with her family, at least we hope so. no one knows what the three kidnapping survivors in cleveland are going through quite like jaycee dugard. dugard abducted in 1991, held captive for 18 long years. she even gave birth to her abduct abductor's children while she was in captivity. last night the national center for missing and exploited children honored dugard for her work helping other families of missing children. and she did reference the cleveland case. >> it's hard to believe that story is me. it's just, thank you for tonight and i want to say what an amazing time to be talking about

hope with everything that's happening. i feel like i have come full circle. and we are all finally together celebrating the wonderful hope that you keep alive every day. i am so thankful for the team of people that have supported me throughout these last few years. i am so grateful to all of you. i can't say they have been easy, but anything in life worth doing is hard, like speaking. >> but she spoke so very well. >> also awarded last night, a man you might recognize from tv shows like "breaking bad," actor brian cranston and his wife. they were honored for their support of the center which they've worked with for more than a decade. >> this is indicative of what is possible in the human condition.

this is hope is not to be shortchanged. it is -- >> it's never too late. >> never too late. it is a wonderful thing to hold on to. it's a very human experience. to be able to say, we have hope, we have faith. >> brian cranston joins me now on capitol hill where he's attending the breakfast for missing and exploited children. welcome, brian. >> good morning, carol. how are you? >> i'm great. and thank you so much for being with us. i wondered what it was like listening to jaycee dugard. >> well, she's a remarkable young woman who not only took her ordeal and began to put the pieces back together for her life, but she's also now extending that to help other victims of abduction and how they assimilate back into society. and she's a remarkable young woman, received a standing ovation last night at the national center for missing and

exploited children's hope awards. and it's a lesson in grace and courage. >> oh, she looks fantastic. but, you know, in just her short remarks that we listen to, she said it's not been easy. it's been very difficult. but she did reassure us all that there's hope. the three young women in cleveland. >> well, i don't think any of us can really imagine what an ordeal like that would be like to be captive by someone for even a week let alone 18 years in jaycee's situation or nearly ten years or over ten years in the situation in cleveland. we're very fortunate that we got that news right before the hope awards. and it really illustrated that hope is alive and that is the main message that we want to send to families who are grieving right now around the

world. whose loved ones are missing. that hope is there still and faith and keep that. and you never know what kind of break is going to come. very fortunate for these three women in cleveland. and now there's a big road ahead of them. physically, they're now back together with their families. but emotionally, intellectually, they need a lot of support and help to get through these next several months and years. >> absolutely. you've been involved in the national organization for a very long time. i'm sure there was talk last night about how cleveland police handled these cases. what was said? >> well, there's a lot of discussion about what's going on. and i think it's not a bad thing to do. it may be monday morning quarterbacking, but in this case, law enforcement needs to do that on a regular basis. to look back, look at the things they did right, the things they did wrong, and figure out how to make those corrections for future cases. i can't comment on what the

cleveland police were able to do or not do. i'm not privy to that information. we're just at the national center for missing and exploited children, we're just excited that these three women and four, in fact, the little girl have been reunited with their families and hopefully will have a fruitful life ahead of them. >> and tell me why you've been involved in this organization for such a long time. >> i'm a parent. i'm a parent, i think it's every parent's nightmare to think of what happened to john walsh's son adam many years ago. they needed to turn their anger and frustration into something positive and they created the national center almost 30 years ago in their garage. and did the right thing. they turned their grieving process into something positive. once you become a parent, you realize they're living my

nightmare of something happening to my child. and that's all the impetus i needed for my wife and i to get involved in the national center many years ago and continue working for their progress. >> bryan cranston, thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> thank you, carol. >> you're welcome. coming up next, more of our special live coverage out of cleveland, ohio. another family still waiting for good hopeful news about a family member who has been missing since 1995. we'll tell you about that. ♪ [ female announcer ] from more efficient payments. ♪ to more efficient pick-ups. ♪ wireless is limitless. and i have a massive heart attack right in my driveway. the doctor put me on a bayer aspirin regimen. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. go talk to your doctor. you're not indestructible anymore.

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the discovery of three missing women in cleveland has sparked new hope for a family of another woman who disappeared in the same neighborhood almost two decades ago. christina atkins vanished on january 10th, 1995. she was 18 years old at the time and she was five months pregnant. zoraida is live in cleveland with family members to talk more about this case. >> reporter: you know what, carol, i was walking through the streets here and i actually saw the sign that this woman is carrying and i thought we need to talk to them. they really do want to keep hope alive. we have tania atkins and mary atkins. you're the sister and mary is the stepmother. and tanya, i want to start with you, your thinking that maybe this could be connected. this abduction happened not too far from here. can you talk to me habit that? >> yeah, my sister's abduction only happened four streets away. you know, there's a good chance

that they know something or they've seen something or they're involved somehow with my sister's being missing. >> you feel very strongly about that. because what you said to me is one of the brothers lives not too far from where she was abducted. >> he lives on the other end of the street from where she was abducted. >> all right. so talk to me about what happened. how she disappeared. >> she was living with her boyfriend, going from the house on the corner, two houses up to her boyfriend's house. she was going home for the night and she disappeared. we don't know if she got in a car, we don't know what happened. we have no clue, we have not had any leads. we just really want to find out where she is and is she okay, you know. >> you've kept this alive since 1995, where do you get the wherewithal to continue this fight to find her? >> we can't give up. if we give up, nobody's going to look for her and she's not a forgotten person.

she's loved very much by her family. you know, she just -- it's not her to turn around and just leave, you know. if she would get into a fight with mom or dad, she would go to her friend's house a couple hours and cool off. normal teenager. you know. >> how did you feel when you heard about what happened here? >> i was hoping and praying that my sister was the third one in there. i really was hoping for it. it could have only been the best mother's day present ever. >> and what made you come here today? >> we need to get awareness out that my sister is missing. we need to take advantage of the fact that we do have so much media available to us right now. we need to try and push and let everybody know she's still wanted. she's still loved. >> well, i commend you for that. i think, you know, it's very courageous what you did and also

very smart. you've been working with the fbi and you have pictures of her at the time and they did an enhancement of the picture you have in the middle. and you created this shirt that you wear -- >> yes. >> so everybody is aware. so this is what christina adkins, what they believe she would look like right now. and also, you had mentioned, mary, that she would have a child at this stage of the game that is about to turn 18? >> yes, would be turning 18 this month. >> all right. well, we wish you a world of luck. we're going to keep this alive, as well. and we're very grateful that you stopped by today. and, you know, one last thing i want to mention because we were talking about this earlier, jaycee dugard. she said keep hope alive. and at the end of the day, really, that's your message also. >> keep hope alive. >> never give up. >> anybody with missing children, keep the faith. >> yeah, keep the faith. we heard it from jaycee dugard and, carol, you were talking to someone earlier who said the same thing. after 18 years, 18 long years as they write here, they are

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that person's anatomy, but how it works. >> the function. >> this is -- this is pretty spectacular. what are we looking at? >> you're looking at tracks, the fibers themselves that connect different regions and allows us to see what region is connected to where and how much of a connection is there. >> when we talk about function like movement and sensation, people generally understand that, but what about things a little bit more nebulous, self-awareness, happiness, pain, reward, is this going to help better identify those areas of the brain? i hope so. just like making a map of the earth. we find where the continents are, but now we can with our gps systems, we can find specific roads, we can even look at the amount of traffic on those

roads. that's a very good analogy because it holds when we're studying the human brain, as well, we have to create these big maps of the overall picture of how the brain is wired. and then we go down and look at the finer details. >> what does this mean for the average person? >> i think it's very important for us to undertake a challenge like this because we suffer from a number of neurological disorders. the population is getting old, people have alzheimer's disease, for example. this kind of science lays the foundation for us to look for targeted therapies and really is instructive in terms of proving the health and well being of everyone. >> many thanks to dr. sanjay gupta. and thank you for joining me today. i'm carol costello, "cnn newsroom" continues after a break. ♪

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against a fired school bus driver and his two brothers. they are suspected in a ten-yearlong kidnap drama that only gets more astonishing as the facts continue to come out. here's cnn's martin savidge. >> investigators scour the home on seymour avenue searching for evidence in this house of horrors. throughout the day, and late into the night, fbi agents meticulously search removing the front door, searching the crawl space, carting away a red pickup and a jeep. at one point, bringing in a cadaver dog. it's not known what if anything the dog found. the fbi taking the lead in the search. >> this is just the tip of the iceberg. this investigation will take a very long time. >> the three suspects, 52-year-old ariel castro, his brothers pedro and onil behind bars, they'll face more interrogation today. authorities have 48 hours to file charges.